Eleanor and Park So I want learn English mainly to read literature. I think that books based on essays or research, on topics like Phycology or Management are easier than Literature. Maybe because they use more terms from Latin and how I speak Portuguese (a romance language), well, some words are quite recognizable. But literature with a history, a plot, turns a bit difficult. There is a lot of substantives and verbs related with actions of the body. So I am beginning with a young age history "Eleanor and Park". Park is an Asian boy. His mother is Korean. Eleanor, according with my understanding of the book, is a little overweight girl with red hair, weird clothes and a lot of problems at home. Her family is very poor and her stepfather isn't a good father to her. Eleanor also is bullied by her colleagues at school. Both take the same bus to school and slowly they are turning friends despite the differences between them.